“The horror in these stories isn’t always drawn from a ‘supernatural other.’ Instead, through Philippine folklore, they explore a world where the supernatural is an accepted element of everyday life and the horror is mined from the realities of existing.” Leah Schnelbach, Bookmarks, 7 SFF Books to Soothe Your February Blues “Yap dances through sci-fi, horror, fabulism, and urban fantasy, and often Filipino folklore.” Kwon, Electric Lit: 43 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2021 Charlie Jane Anders says that “these gorgeous stories will help you to glimpse a world that is both stranger and more immense and varied than any you’ve visited before.” “A debut collection from Small Beer Press, Never Have I Ever combines fabulism, horror, and science fiction. “Drawing from science fiction, Filipino folklore, fantasy and horror, these thirteen stories are monstrous, scary, joyful, unexpected, inventive, eerie and weird.” Lyndsie Manusos, Book Riot, 10 Speculative Short Story Collections to Enjoy in 2021 From stories about high schoolers to goddesses to androids, Publishers Weekly hails Yap as a powerful new voice in speculative fiction, and Tamsyn Muir ( Gideon the Ninth) calls the book a masterclass collection.” “For those who love urban legends, Yap’s debut collection is one for the top of the TBR pile.
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Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the friendship and fear building in “A Canticle for Lost Girls” to the joy in “A Spell for Foolish Hearts” to the terrifying tension of the urban legend “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.”
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